Research

The perfect petri dish

Aug 16, 2013

Peter Tingling on the importance of researching business in sports. Professional sport is undeniably big business. Player contracts and sponsorship deals amount to tens of millions of dollars, with ticket sales, television rights and merchandising totaling billions. One could surmise, therefore, that sport commands a lot of attention in the way of academic research. However, Beedie School of Business associate professor Peter Tingling’s motivation for researching sport is a little less obvious. Rather than the […]

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In defence of “The Decision”

Aug 15, 2013

Yupin Yang shows professional athletes must be mindful of their star status. With the dust still settling on NBA team Miami Heat’s championship victory over the San Antonio Spurs, a win that clinched their second consecutive NBA title, even basketball fans in Cleveland may now struggle to disagree with Lebron James’ controversial decision to move to a higher-profile team in search of championship silverware. However research from the Beedie School of Business shows that James’ […]

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The science (or not) of drafting professional hockey players

Aug 14, 2013

Peter Tingling research debunks “Myth of Detroit Red Wings”. The National Hockey League draft has become something of an annual tradition for Beedie School of Business associate professor Peter Tingling, who found himself in New Jersey recently for the 2013 edition – a scene that attracted leading hockey managers, scouts and media in addition to the players themselves. Tingling, whose focus on management decision-making makes the high profile sporting event a particularly compelling laboratory, has […]

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Intuition vs. Analysis: NHL coaches and the fine art of decision-making

Aug 13, 2013

Study by Kim Trottier shows making choices under pressure is critical in business as well as sport.  Growing up in the northern Ontario community of Kapuskasing, Beedie School of Business assistant professor Kim Trottier was naturally drawn to the sport of hockey at an early age. She was at one point the only girl on an all-boys hockey team – drawing attention to herself as the fastest skater in her age group. She eventually gave […]

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NHL draft: ‘It’s all guesswork,’ professor says

Jul 2, 2013

The following article was published by Toronto Star on June 29, 2013. Peter Tingling, a business professor at Simon Fraser University who has analyzed years of NHL drafts, says the notion that some teams are particularly good at making draft decisions is a myth. NEWARK, N.J.—This is the day NHL general managers will boast that they can’t believe a certain player was still around. This is the day that will give rise to those backstories down […]

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Beedie open innovation research ranked tops on SSRN

Jun 11, 2013

Research from two Beedie School of Business PhD students has become a top paper on the subject of open innovation for 2013, with almost 500 downloads on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), a leading repository of business academic papers. The paper, “The Theory of Crowd Capital”, was authored by Beedie PhD students Prashant Shukla and John Prpić, and examines the increasing number of organizations using IT to engage dispersed populations of individuals for knowledge […]

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Bridging the gap

May 21, 2013

Pek-Hooi Soh examines the link between pharmaceutical innovation and commercialization. By Roberta Staley. Modern medicine sits on the cusp of a brave new health paradigm, where care is administered to a patient based upon his or her unique genetic makeup. Such models of personalized medicine rest largely upon a revolutionary new way to produce drugs developed through the study of gene-disease associations. This area of scholarship is called genomics, a branch of molecular biology that […]

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Redefining organizational change processes

May 21, 2013

Gervase Bushe formalizes organizational development methodologies. In today’s constantly evolving business landscape, change can, and will, come in many shapes and forms. Whether an organization seeks to implement a new strategic vision, restructure their hierarchy, or lay the foundations for a new sustainability initiative, facilitating effective change processes is a mandatory requirement for any company. Yet somewhat surprisingly, the majority of the change processes taught in programs across the globe focus on techniques dating back […]

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Understanding outsourcing

May 17, 2013

Ian McCarthy explores the hidden implications of third-party contracts. While politicians and economic leaders continue to speak to the virtues or pitfalls of outsourcing by companies and countries, the resulting benefit or lack thereof accrue to organizations on a case by case basis – hinging on information, resources and skills – according to two new research papers from Beedie School of Business professor Ian McCarthy. The articles – published in a special issue on outsourcing […]

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Michael Tran parlays MBA into mobile media advertising

May 17, 2013

It only took a moment for Beedie School of Business alumnus Michael Tran to decide on the future of his start-up venture. Tran was attending marketing conferences and tradeshows to research and develop a network for his fledgling business, MLT Media, a mobile media buying service for app developers. But the more Tran looked into online marketing, the more skeptical he became. “At first I thought it was completely bogus – it was hard to […]

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